Managing and Evaluating Rapid-Cycle Process Improvements as Vehicles for Hospital System Redesign

Final Contract Report

This report describes a construct for transforming a large integrated health care system (Denver Health) that began with a comprehensive planning phase and continued with management and evaluation of one component of this transformation effort—the implementation of Lean.

This project was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality under Contract No. 290-00-0014.

Page last reviewed August 2016

Internet Citation: Managing and Evaluating Rapid-Cycle Process Improvements as Vehicles for Hospital System Redesign. Content last reviewed August 2016. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/rapidcycle/index.html